★ What is Gossip Cop? Find out! ★

Lady Gaga Sued By Personal Assistant

10:44 am, December 25th, 2011

(GettyImages.com)

Lady Gaga’s being sued by her former assistant, Jennifer O’Neill.

O’Neill claims in recently filed court papers that she’s owed hundreds of thousands of dollars from Gaga, who she alleges was a real Monster to work for during her 13 months of employment.

According to O’Neill, she had to cater to the singer’s every whim throughout Gaga’s 2010 Monster Ball tour, all day and even for “spontaneous, random matters in the middle of the night.”

Among her many duties, says O’Neill, was “ensuring the promptness of a towel following a shower and serving as a personal alarm clock to keep [Gaga] on schedule.”

O’Neill says her service wasn’t just relegated to helping Gaga in her duplex New York apartment, but was also required in “stadiums, private jets, fine hotel suites, yachts, ferries, trains and tour buses.”

Gaga’s former assistant also claims part of her job was “ensuring the availability of chosen outfits,” which seems like a daunting task given the singer’s penchant for outrageous costumes like her “Meat Dress.”

O’Neill, who was paid $75,000-a-year, says she worked 7,168 hours in unpaid overtime, and is now seeking $380,000 from Lady Gaga.

Gossip Cop reached out to a rep for the singer, but has not heard back.

News of the lawsuit was first reported by the New York Post.

Follow @GossipCop on Twitter!

Like us on Facebook!

You might like:

http://twitter.com/ch33rylips Joanna

I have no problem believing any of that she’s so over the top and crazy it must be hell working for her.
Krissu

75 000 a year is not a lot for celebrity’s personal assistant!
did somebody say WHINE?

What is she whining about? Did she expect to be sitting around and doing nothing?

I don’t understand what she’s suing for since there is probably no proof of the hours she wasn’t paid for. Like, does she not understand what a personal assistant is? Why is it so ridiculous that she had to travel with her? Isn’t that the whole idea of a personal assistant…..?

Whatever. I smell bullshit.
Wahhhhhhhhhh

Alright I don’t know much because I’m not with gagas team but this seems misconstrued. Of course people launch lawsuits at the end of the year….. It’s a JOB. Gagas life is hectic, you are a PERSONAL ASSISTANT. gaga also does a lot for herself that people don’t know about. her current PA is amazing and isn’t complaining about it like this woman has. When you’re working as an assistant for the biggest pop star in the world you kinda have to fill that responsibility. There’s people who would KILL to work for her. If you can’t handle it you’re better off working for someone else.
Anonymous

I have to agree that $75,000 isn’t a lot for a personal assistant for a person this busy. I have a few friends that work as pa’s and the only one that makes this kind of money has a set schedule and is only putting in 40 hours per week with an occasional few hours extra here and there.
The ones that work the crazy schedules and hours are compensated to the tune of $150 – $200K per year with bonuses.
But since everyone is going to say that they are lucky they are making that kind of money lets do the math.
$75,00 per year minus 33% in taxes is $50,250. Now break that down to a monthly it’s $4187.50. Still good money. Now go down to the weekly $1046.87. Again no complaints. Most people can live off of that. Now let’s get into the dirty. You will, if you’re lucky, be working 80 hours per week with no real time off as you have to be available to your boss at 2am to call room service for fries and then again at 6am to get her morning coffee and get her ready for whatever press obligation she has.

So that $1046.87 is now $13 per hour for the 80 and nothing after that.
So the question now is are you willing to give up your friends, family, bf/gf, and any personal life for what amounts to $4 over minimum wage?
http://twitter.com/JenniferKrumm Jennifer Krumm

Am I the only one confused by the fact that she is requesting payment for 7,168 “overtime hours” for only 13 months of work? That is 18 hours a day… not counting whatever she normally worked (non-overtime hours).

I have no issue believing Lady Gaga could be a monster with her assistants, but, how much this woman is asking for is absolutely ridiculous.
Anonymous

I dont think this woman can work as a personal assistant for any high profile person again because gaga wont give her a reference and if she is a suer and a complainer she’s better off doing something else.
Krissu

“I don’t understand what she’s suing for since there is probably no proof of the hours she wasn’t paid for. ”
I am at the moment involved in a law suite that kinda overlaps the overtime pay and how to prove it. It may be different from state to state (or it may be not) but our lawyers told us that it is employers business to keep track of the hours and if nobody is keeping track of the hours worked, then you can ask pretty much anything you want and if employer can’t disprove the claim the number of hours marked stands.
It’s not that anyone can make any crazy claims, but it is Lady Gaga’s (or who ever has hired that PA and pays her salary, and I’m not sure it IS Lady Gaga) business to keep track of how many hours the employee is working, and if you don’t have any data like that, it is your fault and you will pay!
Jennifer

thats RIDICULOUS, what is she complaining about?! fuck man your with GAGA. imagine that, your with your favourite singer, who needs UR help and you get fucking good money. Id do it for free.
http://twitter.com/GagasTe3th Hannah Germano†ta

since when does Gaga go on yachts?huh??! O_o this is utter b/s, this person should be lucky they had a job -___-
Trusty

I would think that time worked would come from the manager’s office. What probably happened, this person acted as if a friend and went along to help out when needed without doing like a time punch in. I would like to ask this assistant these questions: Did she pay for your meals? Did you get your hair styled and manicures and pedicures at her expense? Did she take you to expensive hotels with All of the expenses paid my her? Did she buy you clothes? Did she take you to places you cannot afford? In other words, didn’t she do for you that was out of the box and expenses on her?
Trusty

I bet she didn’t like the job from the beginning. When she didn’t get her money from the very beginning she should have complained then.
Anonymous

Hello, everybody, the good shoping place, the new season approaching, click in. Welcome to ==== http://www.luckygrip.com ==
Air Jordan (1-24) shoes $35
Jordan (1-22)&2009 shoes $45
Nike shox (R4, NZ, OZ, TL1, TL2, TL3) $35
Handbags ( Coach Lv fendi D&G) $35
T-shirts (polo, ed hardy, lacoste) $14
Jean (True Religion, ed hardy, coogi)$34
Sunglasses ( Oakey, coach, Gucci, Armaini)$15
New era cap $16
Bikini (Ed hardy, polo) $18
FREE SHIPPING
=== http://www.luckygrip.com

=== http://www.luckygrip.com
Amandanoa

I expect the contract was for a yearly salary as opposed to hourly rate. If you’re going to work for a personality like Gaga you have to be prepared to do some strange things and you also have to prepared to bow to their wishes as such creative personalities do always have very certain visions as to what they want. This is both the joy and frustation for working for such people.

One would think that although you do the math and come up with not much payment, while away on tour and working for Gaga I’m sure this lady did not have to spend much of her own money. I would expect food and accommodation as well as many more of her needs, would be met by her employer. She’s just after her 15mins of fame and really should take her $75k and all her priceless memories and get on with life – that’s if anyone else will have her – she obviously isn’t that great at her job cos Gaga fired her.
Krissu

I agree with a lot of things you said here, but I don’t think that manager’s office was keeping track of the hours worked. It seems like it was very flexible time schedule and I don’t think anybody wrote down / clocked in and out the time she was on duty. So whatever she puts down as hours, stands since nobody can disprove she didn’t work those hours.
But I am surprised that she sued Lady Gaga for overtime. You’d think there is another organisation that hired her and not Lady Gaga directly.

But yeah, she seems to be complaining that she had to be on yachts, private jets, fancy hotels, cruises… there are worse places to work and to whine about those is odd. be glad you saw the world. But I also think she should have get paid more then 75 000, or if it is base salary she should get paid for overtime. So I am kinda on both sides.
http://fashionurbia.com Fashion Urbia

That’s more than the military pays
http://fashionurbia.com Fashion Urbia

Yes it is
Anonymous

Plus THEY HAD A JOB. In this economy anything, no matter what, is better than nothing. As a previous poster said they were probably under a contract and not hourly, so I don’t think OT is in the cards unless there was a provision in the contract.
Anwar

see the pictures of ur stars and celebrities on http://www.chiliwood.blogspot.com
Mama2Jude1112

I totally agree with everything you have said
James S

She didnt go on Luxury Yachts, it was spelled that way, but it’s pronounced “Throat Wobbler Mangrove”.
Andrew S

Depending on the contract, overtime isn’t required for salaried individuals.
me

75 000 dollars is worth 3.3 million in the phillippines. Normal, yet hardworking maids here only receive 60,000 pesos a year! that’s just 1363 dollars a year. The girl doesn’t get abused by gaga, holding a towel and being a human alarm clock is a normal job for these people. Stop complaining and accept the motherfucking money. Many little monsters are willing to do it for free. Even an accomplished architect like myself can’t make that much money, and you’re an accomplished maid. This saddens me.
http://www.free-blog-site.com/cognostraining cognos certification

Lady Gaga is a very good singer and she has so many weird costumes that can be used in a costume party. She is one of the most popular artists today.

Top Stories

Busting bad dish!

Lady Gaga Sued By Personal Assistant

You might like:

Subscribe to Gossip Cop's newsletter:

Got tips? Email us: